Tag: biodiversity
Climate change is depleting plant nutrition, threatening herbivores from grasshoppers to...
Rising CO2 levels are driving faster plant growth but reducing nutrient density, with alarming impacts across ecosystems.gian
European energy giants conceal nearly half of their biodiversity damage
New research reveals how major energy companies in Europe are hiding the ecological destruction caused by their operations, with nearly 50 percent of adverse impacts going unreported in official sustainability documents.
Turning the tide: How global conservation efforts are curbing biodiversity loss
A decade-long scientific study reveals significant success in conservation actions worldwide, offering hope amidst the biodiversity crisis.
Republicans spearhead Congress’s assault on endangered species with 2024 bill riders
Endangered wildlife faces a new threat as Congress's 2024 bill riders, largely driven by Republicans, push species closer to extinction.
Amazon’s alarm: The rainforest’s role in pandemic outbreaks and planetary health
Amazon at the crossroads: deforestation and climate change fuel disease risks.
Wildfires aren’t just a threat to people—they’re killing off Earth’s biodiversity
Cataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change.
Environmental leaders from 185 countries launch biodiversity protection fund
“As we confront the critical challenge of halting and reversing biodiversity loss around the world, working together has never been more important."
Agreement made to increase protection of biodiversity at COP15
Are governments "finally starting to forge a peace pact with nature?”
Meet the industry lobbyists fighting efforts to solve the biodiversity crisis
"This research sheds new light on an area of lobbying that has largely been able to slip under the radar and should act as a wake-up call to policymakers ahead of the U.N.'s upcoming biodiversity conference," said InfluenceMap's program manager.
Global forest area declined by 60% since 1960, study finds
More monitoring, preservation, and reforestation globally is necessary to maintain forested land and prevent major biodiversity loss.
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...
Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.